Ryan Shtuka - Sun Peaks - B.C. Canada

Locations Unknown

Unknown Media Group

Places & Travel, True Crime, Society & Culture

4.4 • 897 Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2026

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

February 17th, 2018: after a night out at Sun Peaks Resort in British Columbia, a 20-year-old leaves a house party for the short walk back to staff housing and is never seen again. A winter storm batters the mountain village with plunging temperatures, gusting winds, and fresh snow. Search dogs, helicopters, drones, and hundreds of volunteers scour the resort and surrounding terrain, but find nothing. No body, no clothing, no phone, no trace. Join us this week as we investigate the haunting disappearance of Ryan Shtuka.

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0:00.0	Thousands of people have mysteriously vanished in America's wilderness.
0:13.0	Join us as we dive into the deep end of the unexplainable and try to piece together what happened.
0:19.0	You are listening to locations unknown. What's up, everybody, and welcome back to another episode of Locations Unknown.
0:58.2	I'm your co-host, Joe Irado, and with me as always is a guy who pronounces the T and
1:02.6	disoriented twice, Mike Manda Bogart.
1:05.5	Oh, thank you, Joe.
1:06.6	And thank you once again, too.
1:08.6	Thank you.
1:09.6	Thank you. Thank you. It's been a long night's thank you
1:13.8	jo and thank you to all of our listeners for tuning in we've been off for a couple weeks now we've
1:19.5	moved studios again we've joe went on vacation i was on vacation mm-hmm it's raining cats and dogs.
1:28.8	Yeah, if you hear a weird background sound, we can't help it.
1:32.0	It's we're, we've literally been just rained on for days now.
1:36.2	I just had the most crazy experience getting to our new studio.
1:40.4	I was driving downtown and water was just shooting out of like manhole covers and flooding the streets.
1:47.0	So we're having some real flooding problems. This is how committed we are to this. Yeah, we probably
1:51.4	should have postponed this a night. That's too late. We're already here. We're here. Maybe all night.
1:56.7	Yep. So what's going on in your world? My world? Yes. I'm here right now. I'm coming back from
2:03.8	vacation. I was down in Captiva and that's slow and beachy and warm. Yeah. They come back to this.
2:09.5	At least it's not snowing, I guess. I guess. Yeah. But no, excited to be back and get going. We have a new
2:15.4	format introducing. That's going to be exciting.
2:17.7	Well, yeah. So this, we may go back to how we did it. This is a different kind of case.
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